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David Howells 7d12e780e0 IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers
Maintain a per-CPU global "struct pt_regs *" variable which can be used instead
of passing regs around manually through all ~1800 interrupt handlers in the
Linux kernel.

The regs pointer is used in few places, but it potentially costs both stack
space and code to pass it around.  On the FRV arch, removing the regs parameter
from all the genirq function results in a 20% speed up of the IRQ exit path
(ie: from leaving timer_interrupt() to leaving do_IRQ()).

Where appropriate, an arch may override the generic storage facility and do
something different with the variable.  On FRV, for instance, the address is
maintained in GR28 at all times inside the kernel as part of general exception
handling.

Having looked over the code, it appears that the parameter may be handed down
through up to twenty or so layers of functions.  Consider a USB character
device attached to a USB hub, attached to a USB controller that posts its
interrupts through a cascaded auxiliary interrupt controller.  A character
device driver may want to pass regs to the sysrq handler through the input
layer which adds another few layers of parameter passing.

I've build this code with allyesconfig for x86_64 and i386.  I've runtested the
main part of the code on FRV and i386, though I can't test most of the drivers.
I've also done partial conversion for powerpc and MIPS - these at least compile
with minimal configurations.

This will affect all archs.  Mostly the changes should be relatively easy.
Take do_IRQ(), store the regs pointer at the beginning, saving the old one:

	struct pt_regs *old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs);

And put the old one back at the end:

	set_irq_regs(old_regs);

Don't pass regs through to generic_handle_irq() or __do_IRQ().

In timer_interrupt(), this sort of change will be necessary:

	-	update_process_times(user_mode(regs));
	-	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING, regs);
	+	update_process_times(user_mode(get_irq_regs()));
	+	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING);

I'd like to move update_process_times()'s use of get_irq_regs() into itself,
except that i386, alone of the archs, uses something other than user_mode().

Some notes on the interrupt handling in the drivers:

 (*) input_dev() is now gone entirely.  The regs pointer is no longer stored in
     the input_dev struct.

 (*) finish_unlinks() in drivers/usb/host/ohci-q.c needs checking.  It does
     something different depending on whether it's been supplied with a regs
     pointer or not.

 (*) Various IRQ handler function pointers have been moved to type
     irq_handler_t.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit)
2006-10-05 15:10:12 +01:00
Henrik Kretzschmar dcbccbde00 [SCSI] pci_module_init conversion in scsi subsystem
Converts pci_module_init() to pci_register_driver() in the scsi subsys on
23 drivers which only return the value of pci_module_init().

Signed-off-by: Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-09-26 11:35:32 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner 1d6f359a2e [PATCH] irq-flags: scsi: Use the new IRQF_ constants
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-02 13:58:53 -07:00
Tobias Klauser 6391a11375 [SCSI] drivers/scsi: Use ARRAY_SIZE macro
Use ARRAY_SIZE macro instead of sizeof(x)/sizeof(x[0]) and remove
duplicates of the macro.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-06-10 10:45:30 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig 5d5ff44fe6 [SCSI] fix up request buffer reference in various scsi drivers
Various scsi drivers use scsi_cmnd.buffer and scsi_cmnd.bufflen in their
queuecommand functions.  Those fields are internal storage for the
midlayer only and are used to restore the original payload after
request_buffer and request_bufflen have been overwritten for EH.  Using
the buffer and bufflen fields means they do very broken things in error
handling.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-06-06 11:07:25 -04:00
Andrew Morton 7551d9a20b [PATCH] 3ware: kmap_atomic() fix
We must disable local IRQs while holding KM_IRQ0 or KM_IRQ1.  Otherwise, an
IRQ handler could use those kmap slots while this code is using them,
resulting in memory corruption.

Thanks to Nick Orlov <bugfixer@list.ru> for reporting.

Cc: <linuxraid@amcc.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11 06:18:46 -07:00
Jes Sorensen a12e25bd59 [SCSI] sem2mutex 3w-[x9]xxx
Convert a the 3w-9xxx.c and 3w-xxxx.c drivers to use mutexes instead
of semaphores. Untested, but compiles and looks obviously correct.

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-01-14 10:55:12 -06:00
Jeff Garzik 017560fca4 [SCSI] use sfoo_printk() in drivers
Rejections fixed up and
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-10-28 21:04:15 -05:00
James Bottomley c9d297c543 [SCSI] fix 3ware raid emulated commands
The 3ware emulated commands all expect they are executing in the
use_sg == 0 case, which isn't true either in the block layer rework or
an SG_IO ioctl.

Fix this by adding the correct kmapping of the first element in the sg
list.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-08-28 11:34:11 -05:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman d18c3db58b [PATCH] PCI: make drivers use the pci shutdown callback instead of the driver core callback.
Now we can change the pci core to always set this pointer, as pci drivers
should use it, not the driver core callback.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-27 21:52:47 -07:00
Jeff Garzik df0ae2497d [SCSI] allow sleeping in ->eh_host_reset_handler()
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-06-17 12:05:18 -05:00
Linus Torvalds 1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00